World poverty and human rights /
by Thomas Pogge.
- 2nd ed.
- Cambridge : Polity, 2008.
- vii, 284 pages ; 24 cm
Previous edition: 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [265] -327) and index.
Human flourishing and universal justice -- How should human rights be conceived? -- Loopholes in moralities -- Moral universalism and global economic justice -- The bounds of nationalism -- Achieving democracy -- Cosmopolitanism and sovereignty -- Eradicating systemic poverty : brief for a global resources dividend -- Pharmaceutical innovation : must we exclude the poor?
Thomas Pogge tries to explain how most of the population of this planet can excuse world poverty. A mere one or two % of the wealth of the richer nations could help in eradicating much of the poverty but there's a slim chance of that happening.
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Human rights. Poverty. Human Rights Poverty Droits de l'homme (Droit international) Poverty.